This pale wheat ale pours a light yellow, slightly opaque color with a thin white head and a fairly high amount of carbonation. The smell is quite mild with some grain and caramel malt tones. The flavor is also pretty mild with flavors of cereals, sweet caramel, and some mild herbal notes. The body is light and the finish is semi-dry. Pretty uninteresting beer overall. It’s not bad to drink, but it’s not particularly refreshing or summery without any notes of citrus or strong herbal character.

Pours a deep golden amber with plenty of white foamy head but only moderate lacing. Taste was mainly malts with a very slight hop bitterness. Very similar to an American blonde ale with a little more flavor. A very light and refreshing summer ale for a hot day.

On Cask at Cask and Vine dry hopped with Citra. Slightly hazy deep yellow color with a decent off white head. Earthy spicy light tropical fruity with bits of citrus. Still quite buttery and that ruins it for me.

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 1/10/2016. Pours lightly hazy deep golden yellow color with a 2 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt, earthy hops, and moderate fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Good robustness and balance of bready malt, earthy hops, and moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and a slight bitter astringency lingering after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and lightly sticky/bready/chalky mouthfeel that is okay. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a solid English pale wheat ale. All around good robustness and balance of pale male, earthy hops, and moderate yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A fairly enjoyable offering.

Had it on draft at a bar. It is light and sessionable, which is nice during the summer. Overall though, it is boring. Mouthfeel is watery, taste is unspectacular, smell is average. I would say it's worth trying, but other summer beers are better (Sam adams, brooklyn).

It's a lot different from any other summer beers I've had. Creamy malt, with flavors of biscuit and cracker, finished with just a little hop bitterness. There's a little bit of the characteristic wheat malt, but it's not immediately noticeable as a wheat beer. It tastes more like a traditional English pale ale, like Bass or similar. It's nice. Drinkable and tasty.

Pours a deep clear gold with a thin smear of white head. Voluminous carbonation is visible as well. The aroma Is strongly malt with some bubble gum. Taste wise it is mostly malt and kind of corn syrup sweet. The body is not bad, not too heavy or watery, but very carbonated.

I was told this was a german wheat but it tasted and smelled more like it had a very neutral yeast in it. I downgraded the beer due to a metallic taste I get. I also know I have a very low threshold for this flavor and get it in a lot of beers.

Appearance: Pours a clear, very effervescent, pale golden color with a quarter of a finger of white-colored head that quickly dissolved away into a lacing of foam that completely covered the top of the beer. Looks like a MBC beer, unfortunately.

Aroma: Ok aroma. Some notes of toasted malt, imparting some notes of English muffins, followed by some notes of corn and/or rice adjuncts. Smells like a BMC beer, unfortunately.

Taste: Doesn’t taste like a BMC beer, however. There’s some good, bready, toasted malt flavors followed by some caramel and brown sugar-like sweetness, some lemony citrus, a touch of clover, cilantro and honeysuckle.

Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied and nicely carbonation. With an ABV of 5.1%, there is no alcohol on the palate.

Overall: Decent beer, with some nice flavors. I wouldn’t turn it down if offered, but as there are many, many better summer beers out there, I’m not getting it again on my own.

I'm generally a fan of the Shipyard line, and while I'm not as down on this one as the Bros, I have to say this is one of the less inspired offerings from Shipyard. Just 'blah' and a bit harsh and metallic on the palate. Picked up a 12-pack on sale (about a buck a bottle) and still can't say I'd buy more even at that price.

an extremely plain and almost flavorless summer beer, which is odd because it has more body than it needs to with this little flavor. brassy color, a little dull looking from the bottle but holding a decent white head and leaving some patchy froth lacing as I drink it down (very quickly). the best feature is the feel, great carbonation and a clean finish, but that's expected because there isnt much flavor to clean up. a really mild two row malt base is basically irrelevant, and the hops are for balance only, no real flavor to them. the thing I taste the most is the yeast, which is a clean and very basic ale yeast. I think more grain profile (not body) on this beer would make it a little better, but its good for mindless summer drinking. I much prefer it with spicy food, can cleanse the palate pretty will without getting too filling. nothing special though overall from shipyard. they save their magic for the signature series.

Best Before Sept. 2014, suggesting it was bottled a few months ago. Just recently purchased in a sixpack, I was gifted half of that by the buyer, who did not care for it.

Poured from the 12 oz. bottle into a Harpoon IPA glass

a: Clear amber with a finger thick white head which receded to thin surface foam and spotty lacing

s: Bready malt, perhaps a little light fruit

t: At first a sharp tartness over bready malt, Smooths out late.

m; Light to medium, good body.

o: Not a bad summer brew, very similar to the Saranac Kolsch I had recently, and some of the same observations apply. More body than many lagers, but not a whole lot of distinctive flavor. Except for initial tartness, I did not get the lemon flavor others have reported.

Appearance: Pours a surprisingly clear gold with a two-finger white head and heavy carbonation. I expected this to be hazier because it's a wheat beer. Lacing was about moderate for the style.

Aroma: Smells of lemons and wheat. Some citrus notes, some faint toast and some hops round out the nose. I like the aromas of this beer.

Taste: The taste follows the nose, and I dig it. It's what I want out of a summer beer - easy, refreshing, citrusy, wheaty and mild. Sessionable. Not complex but doesn't need to be and isn't trying to be. It's a nice, wheaty, bready, lemony summer ale.

Mouthfeel: Easy on the palate, as it should be.

Overall: It's not a sipper. If you didn't know that when you bought it, you're a bit of a stooge. It's a really good summer session ale for pool parties, cookouts, watching ballgames, beaching, etc. There's a reason the label has a picture of a lounging lobster on it.

Appearance – The beer pours a golden color with a two finger head of pure white foam and tons of tiny carbonation bubbles seen streaming up through the clear body. The head has a decent level of retention, slowly fading to leave a heavy level of lace on the sides of the glass.

Smell – The aroma of the beer is biggest of a caramel smell along with a bready and wheaty smell. Along with these aromas are some lighter notes of a light fruit aroma of some orange and a bit of pear and apple.

Taste – The taste begins a wheat bready flavor mixed with lots of caramel sweetness. As the taste advances the breadiness dwindles ever so slightly being replaced by a lighter cracker taste. Along with the change in the bready flavors, the caramel changes as well with it losing ground and being replaced by some orange and a hint of grapefruit hop. With a light flavor of an herbal hop nature joining in at the end of the taste, one is left with a very lightly hopped, moderately sweeter bready flavor to linger on the tongue.

Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the average to slightly thicker side for a summer style ale with a carbonation level that is average to just below average. While it looked like it would have had tons of carbonation it didn’t feel like it, with a more effervescent feel likely being better for creating a more refreshing summer style ale.

Overall – An OK summer ale. It’s pretty easy drinking and non-offensive, a brew that most anyone would drink making it good for large summer style gatherings.

Unfortunately, the best thing this guy had going for it was its label, definitely did the wrong kind of judging a book by its cover on this one. In my opinion, it's still a touch underrated. Crisp light flavor without much fruit or anything else going on. It's not bland, and the flavor is fine.

This poured with a tiny half finger of head (much less than I would have anticipated for a wheat beer) and is a light, clear copper color.

The smell is ever so slightly bitter (hoppy) and perhaps just a little bit skunky.

The taste is a little bit malty with slight hints of citrus. Its fairly smooth in flavor and taste, and slightly increasing hop bitterness on the aftertaste. Its really nothing like any wheat beer I have ever had before.

This is a decent beer, its not particularly flavorful but its an ok summer beer.

From the 12 fl. oz. bottle stamped January 2014. Sampled on July 2, 2013.

The pour is pale yellow to light copper with a decent white head that eventually settles down to a ring.

The aroma has a touch of wheat, more of a touch of pale grainy malts, and a touch of clean hops.

The body is light to medium and good for the style.

The wheat does add a slight bit of character to this pale ale which might otherwise taste like a standard pale or pilsener. A low to moderate hop bite at the end. I think it is pretty refreshing on a hot summer day.

A: Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Body is clear, orangey-yellow with a 1-finger white head on top. Some bits of lace on the glass.

S: Like a pilsner with some spice, if that makes sense. Also a tad bit lemony fighting a little bit of musty, spent cereal grains.

T: More pale than wheat on the palate - some lemony flavor at the finish stands out, providing some decent bitterness at the back end of the sip. As for the front end. . . well, I get lighter malt flavors (some biscuity or crackery malt), some fruity sweetness, a faint hint of wheat twang and . . . actually, that's about it. Modest lingering lemony bitterness lightens the overall impression, but after a few sips, even that gets lost behind a fruity sweetness lingering on the palate.

M: Decent creamy-type feel; carbonation is modest and not at all harsh or prickly. It's fairly active though. Heft is light.

O: OK. Nothing to write home about, but nothing really offensive about this beer, either.